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Very rarely, do we find cars like this.
We dealt directly with the second owner, who had literally just purchased the car off of a long-term friend.
The vehicle had been in storage at his barn for many years.
His good friend had moved to sunny, Florida, and retired there .
In his 80s he was never going to drive the car again, so he offered it to the second owner
The second owner duly purchased the car.
His thought process at the time was to keep it and to refurbish it and use it.
However, his decision changed and we ended up purchasing it directly from him.
He is showing as the second owner, but only had it in his possession for a matter of a few weeks.
When we purchased the car, it was not in bad condition at all
But having been sat for many years, we decided to give it a full restoration.
We have spent a considerable amount of money on the car and it is simply stunning!!
This stunning Pacific Blue late big turbo RS Cosworth is presented in Pacific Blue with full black Lux leather trim. K726 PLE was sold to its first owner on 25th September 1992 and remained with him until last year when permanently relocating to the USA he sold it to his good friend. The car having spent a number of years in storage as the owner spent more and more time in the US was a little cosmetically untidy and needed a little TLC so the new owner had the intention of recommissioning it himself but not having the time or funds to do the car justice he negotiated with ourselves to step in and purchase the project and thus the more detailed restoration took place. The car started fine and ran well but naturally needed all fluids removing and replacing and the car serviced, bearing in mind the incredible low mileage the interior was in fantastic condition and thus required nothing more than a leather feed and clean. The plan was to recommission and ‘tidy’ the car leaving or retaining originality but as many projects do this began to expand. The decision was taken to remove the engine and fully rebuild it and then detail it but while the engine was out we decided to paint the entire engine bay, then because of a few age related marks the decision was taken to expand this to fully repainting the entire car.
At this point the simple ‘commissioning’ had got fully out of hand and we changed tack and decided to spend the best part of the year ensuring the car was in a condition befitting of a low mileage low owner collector car…. So up next while the car was in the air awaiting its engine rebuild the decision was made to completely refurbish the underside with every nut and bolt removed, cleaned or replaced and zinc plated. The budget at this point had been thrown out the window by ourselves, and although not wanting to add up the man hours we have spent approximately £60, 000 on the car excluding the initial purchase..
What we now have is a genuine, very low mileage standard example with history up to the point of storage and details from the restoration over the last year, a fabulous example therefore of an iconic 90’s fast Ford. In essence a one owner car for almost all of its life and with under 18000 miles
